Senior Backend Engineer, Nightfall AI

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SQL

React

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Java

Kafka

Redis

Node.js

Cassandra

Terraform

C++

Hadoop

MySQL

Storm

Hive

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Cloud-native data protection platform

Open for applications

Cloud-native data protection platform

101-200 employees

B2BSecurityBig dataSaaSCyber Security

Open for applications

Salary not provided

SQL

React

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Java

Kafka

Redis

Node.js

Cassandra

Terraform

C++

Hadoop

MySQL

Storm

Hive

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

101-200 employees

B2BSecurityBig dataSaaSCyber Security

Company mission

To empower enterprises big and small to navigate the digital world with confidence, while ensuring the security and privacy of their sensitive data.

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Company

Role

Who you are

Expertise in one or more systems/high-level programming language (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C++) and the eagerness to learn more
Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (three 9’s) systems
Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring and reliability
Experience in integrating with third party APIs
Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra)
Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them
Data Processing - experience with building and maintaining large scale and/or real-time complex data processing pipelines using Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Storm, or Zookeeper
4+ years of experience

What the job involves

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Nightfall, you’ll enable us to deliver our platform reliably, securely, and at massive scale. You’ll help architect low latency, real-time microservices that process & detect sensitive data at scale
Building highly-available and secure authentication and API services
Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services
Optimizing and operating high volume auto-scaling streaming data services
Instrumenting streaming data services for visibility into utilization per customer
Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services
Working with product and other stakeholders to define features

Our take

Nightfall AI is tackling security challenges posed by the adoption of generative AI and technologies like GPT-4o. Businesses adopting these powerful AI models face extended concerns over sensitive data exposure, prompt injection attacks and model abuse.

Nightfall AI's firewall for I is a robust client wrapper safeguarding GENAI applications and data pipeline. it ensures security by proactively scanning and removing sensitive information like PII, PCI, PHI, and proprietary secrets. Additionally, it defends against prompt injection attacks, ensuring data integrity across diverse AI inputs.

With its AI-native detection engine and advanced DLP models, Nightfall proactively addresses future challenges in evolving AI technologies. By integrating into workflows, Nightfall enables organisations to deploy GenAI applications securely, ensuring compliance and driving innovation for enhanced customer experiences.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

53% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Aug 2022

$40m

SERIES B

Nov 2019

$20.3m

SERIES A

Total funding: $60.3m

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Articles

Nightfall AI targets modern enterprises with new data security solutions

Nightfall launches Firewall for AI to secure GPT-4o

Nightfall AI and Snyk Partner to Offer Developers AI-Powered Secrets Scanning

Leadership

Isaac Madan

(CEO)

Having studied at Stanford, Isaac co-founded Chalky in 2013 before working as a Correlation Ventures Tech Advisor and Analyst for Pejman Mar. They spent 2 years as a Venrock Investor before co-founding Nightfall AI in March 2018.

Rohan Sathe

(CTO)

Rohan started their career as a Voxer Software Engineer before being a Founding Engineer of UberEats, where they worked until 2017. In March 2018, they co-founded Nightfall AI with Isaac, serving as CTO.

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